Integration Report 1
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Integration Report 1, Madeline Anderson's trailblazing debut, was the first known documentary by an African American female director. With tenacity, empathy and skill, Anderson assembles a vital record of desegregation efforts around the country in 1959 and 1960, featuring footage by documentary legends Albert Maysles and Richard Leacock and early Black cameraman Robert Puello, singing by Maya Angelou, and narration by playwright Loften Mitchell. Anderson fleetly moves from sit-ins in Montgomery, Alabama to a speech by Martin Luther King Jr. in Washington, D.C. to a protest of the unprosecuted death in police custody of an unarmed Black man in Brooklyn, capturing the incredible reach and scope of the civil rights movement, and working with this diverse of footage, as she would later say, “like an artist with a palette using different colors.”
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Cast
16 people
Martin Luther King Jr.
Self
Also in
Martin Luther King: More Than One Dream
Assassinations That Changed the World
Bayard Rustin
Self
Also in
CIRILO, A Legacy Untold
Albert Maysles
Madeline Anderson
Loften Mitchell
Andrew Young
Self
Also in
Backyard Wilderness
The American President
Maya Angelou
Robert Graham Brown
Narrator (voice)
John Fletcher
Lillian Hayman
Richard Leacock
Alfonso Burney
Madeline Anderson Director · Loften Mitchell Writer Zina Voynow Editor
United States release January 1, 1960 · Produced in United States
Production
Andover Productions
Production
United States
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · January 1, 1960
Theatrical
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